The 20th century will come to be known as the separation of our natural selves from our modern selves. At the start of the 20th, a much higher percentage had experience killing or dressing the evening’s main course. Today, we’re more likely to buy our meat on a styrofoam tray, wrapped in saran wrap.

We’re losing touch with a lot of practical knowledge, including the knowledge of knots. You can find any manner of knot for any particular purpose, but if you memorize these two, you’ll cover 90% of the situations out there:

The Square Knot
uses: tying two rope ends together

The Clove Hitch
uses: tying rope to something round